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Podcrushed

Brian Baumgartner

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week Brian Baumgartner (The Office) stops by and offers some theories on why The Office is the most streamed comedy in history, and also opens up about a traumatic medical procedure in middle school that altered the course of his life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lemonnotta.

0:05.0

I was sitting there on set going to

0:08.0

there on set going, God, I know this is different.

0:12.8

I know that there's no laugh track

0:15.3

and the camera's moving around.

0:17.6

But if people can get past that,

0:20.5

we're changing television. This is Podcrushed.

0:26.0

The podcast that takes this thing out of rejection one

0:29.0

crushing middle school story at a time.

0:31.0

And where guests share their teenage memories, both meaningful and

0:33.8

mortifying. And we're your hosts. I'm Nava, a former middle school director.

0:37.7

I'm Sophie, a former fifth grade teacher. And I'm Penn, a middle school dropout.

0:41.4

Nava, how is your week? Penn, a middle school dropout.

0:45.0

Nava, how is your week? This week's been really nice.

0:46.0

I have family in town and spending time with my extended family.

0:50.0

But I wanted to tell just a little story.

0:52.0

I was playing with my dog and I had my phone

0:55.0

and he got really upset and he like tried to kick my phone out of my hand.

0:58.0

And I was just thinking about like,

1:01.0

how are dogs affected by human beings?

1:03.3

Yes, no, no, all ears.

1:05.1

Everybody's looking at me like what the hell.

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